Arts, Books & Writing
Browse every article in this topic. Filter by year or month, or search only within Arts, Books & Writing.
Browse this topic
By year
By month
Select a month
Search within Arts, Books & Writing
Articles in this category
-
The Terakoya Spirit in the Age of AI
Long before schools were standardized and education became a matter of national policy, Japan had the Terakoya. The word traces back to terako (children…
-
Writing That Forgets Itself
When people begin their writing with a confession about how long it has been since they last wrote, or how they finally found a…
-
Writing Beyond the Noise
When Stanley Kubrick released 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968, audiences entered theaters expecting a science fiction adventure. They saw spacecraft moving with balletic…
-
The Freedom of Plain Text and AI
There is no shortage of apps that promise to organize the human mind. Obsidian with its glowing graph view, Notion with its customizable dashboards,…
-
Ghosts and Roots of Language
Languages are not simply tools of communication. They are also archives, keeping within their structures the echoes of past centuries. Every time we write…
-
Revisiting A Thousand Plateaus
When A Thousand Plateaus appeared in 1980, the internet was not yet part of daily life. Computers existed but were mostly confined to research…
-
Markdown vs Plain Text
The relationship between plain text and markdown is often taken for granted. Many assume they belong to the same family, that a preference for…
-
The Open Door of Plain Prose
Open a book of mathematics and the page looks like a map to another planet. Strange letters and symbols occupy the space where you…
-
When Knowledge Performs
A library at rest is almost a contradiction. The shelves are filled with books, each holding the trace of someone’s thought, yet in the…
-
The Writer I Return To
There is a unique kind of joy that comes not from reading the works of great authors, but from reading what we ourselves have…
-
The Myth of the Perfect Language
For centuries, human beings have longed for a language that could say everything, perfectly and clearly. From the myths of Adamic speech to the…
-
Writing as a Way of Being
Most people see a social media post as something small, something momentary. It’s just an update, a joke, a meal photo, a line of…